Steve's education in performance, presentation, and light started early. He grew up in a theater family with a Producer/Director for a mother and dancer for a sister. By His early teens, he was a budding actor and model. He pursued an education in drama, music & dance in New York where he continued modeling and acting into his early 20s. After moving back to Boston in the late 1990's he honed his skills as a photographer while working for some of the world's largest advertising agencies.

Branching out on his own he started FLASHFLOOD Studios where he uses his lifelong obsession with light and color to bring a hyper-realistic pulse to his images.